Thanks, all, jdd:
Unfortunately, leap 42.2 won't install on my Samsung NP700Z7C-S01US. I made a flash drive which boots into the selection GUI
what is that? computer boot menu? If it's an uefi computer you may have options in the firmware
As I said, it's the boot menu from the iso. The computer boots quite happily from the flash drive and goes into the installation menu (what I called the selection gui).
USB flash drive it just booted from. However, the install selection can't see the USB flash and the "boot from hard drive" can't find a bootable hard drive at all (W10 boots reliably from the hard drive).
may be it's not correctly made
I used the procedures detailed in https://en.opensuse.org/Create_installation_USB_stick. I hadn't seen the page you referenced. Carlos:
I don't know what that "Universal-USB-Installer-1.9.7.8.exe" is, but the way to create an openSUSE install USB stick is to copy the install iso image RAW to the USB stick. If you use something that tries to make it bootable, you break it and will not work.
Hmm. As I said to jdd, I used the process in https://en.opensuse.org/Create_installation_USB_stick. One of the recommendations from the suse community. Carl:
I'm using a newly downloaded copy of openSUSE-Leap-42.2-DVD-x86_64.iso and Universal-USB-Installer-1.9.7.8.exe.
Hi John,
I use 'live-fat-stick':
https://software.opensuse.org/package/live-fat-stick
Details / docs / errata: https://github.com/cyberorg/live-fat-stick
That's one of the options I was going to try (there are several on the wiki) if the list couldn't solve this for me. Looks as though I'll have to keep trying wiki suggestions until something works. The one thing that seems strongly indicated is that the wiki procedure using UUI is faulty. UUI split out the installation software and made the flash drive bootable, which Carlos says breaks the installer. Gives me guidance on which trick to try next. Also, this whole project stems from an apparent conflict between W10 and Malwarebytes's rootkit detector, which reboots W10 several times during its function. Apparently W10 had downloaded a major update which I didn't know about, and when MWB rebooted its process corrupted W10's update process, which killed my computer completely. I'm in the process now of restoring my laptop, which is what prompted this episode. So I don't presently have a working linux to use for imagewriter. Thanks again, all. jp -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org